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Thailand’s first urban
aquarium, which boasts
400 aquatic species,
opens to the public
today.

So I went to take a look
- 450 Baht!!! - 280
Baht for kids - So
you rich guys out there,
please send me a
detailed report of your
visit. As for me I am
saving up

Bangkok’s first aquarium is worth a
tour, even if it does lack some depth

Upon entering Siam Ocean World Bangkok,
the enormous aquarium in the Siam
Paragon mega-mall, which opens today,
you are struck by the unreality of the
lighting. The experience is more like
watching a film being shot under studio
lights than seeing the rays of the sun
filtered through the watery deep.

And despite its huge volume, the
360-degree fishbowl fails to create the
illusion of a vast ocean because the
blue wall behind it was built too close
to the viewing glass.

There are more such deficiencies,
perhaps temporary. Thanks to the bird
flu scare, the penguin has for now been
replaced by a pair of spotted seals from
Japan.

So it’s not perfect. But the aquarium is
still worth a visit.

Run by Siam Ocean World, a subsidiary of
the Oceanis Australia Group, the
“edutainment?venue is touted as both
Southeast Asia’s biggest aquarium and
the country’s first urban aquarium. The
total area is 10,000-square meters
(about the size of two football fields)
and the tanks contain more than 30,000
aquatic creatures from 400 species.

After a tour, some visitors said that
the slightly more realistic Pattaya
aquarium would be the better of the two
if only it was as big as the Bangkok
aquarium.

Through interactive features, Siam Ocean
World tries to set itself apart from
others in Thailand, which usually limit
their explanations of sea life to a list
of their scientific and common names.
Here, audio guides are available in Thai
and English; Mandarin and Japanese will
come soon.

But marine expert and travel writer Thon
Thamrongnawasawat, who has visited
numerous aquariums around the world,
says the information provided is too
brief and irrelevant to a Thai audience.

He would’ve liked to have seen the
curators include more local content that
visitors can relate to, such as where
the creatures inside the tank can be
found in Thailand. “But it’s
understandable [that they didn’t],
because they made it a Disney-like
aquarium mainly for tourists, not
Thais.?br>
Still, the place is impressive enough
that it should meet its goal of 1.55
million visitors during its first year,
even if the ticket prices are on the
high side. Overall, the Oceanis
Australia Group has built the thing to
an international standard. But it
appears that the venue is not
100-percent ready for tours yet; Thon
says it opened to the public ahead of
schedule.

The aquarium is divided into seven
zones: Weird and Wonderful, Deep Reef,
Living Ocean, Rain Forest, Rocky Shore,
Open Ocean and Sea Jelly. Among the
highlights are the 14 ragged-tooth
sharks from South Africa, which have
never before been exhibited in Thailand.
The stingrays are too young and small to
boast about.

The Rocky
Shore zone offers a touch pool;
chocolate-chip starfish, ordinary
starfish and sea urchins can be handled.
Through a microphone, visitors can
communicate with the divers in the tank
and instruct them to, say, play with a
shark. The divers can’t talk back, but
you can hear them breathing and the
underwater sounds around them.

Other highlights include the 360-degree
fishbowl, the 43-meter tunnel under the
tank and daily shark feeding shows at
1:30pm and 5:30pm.

The Chevy sedan turned into a fish tank
at the exit should prove to be another
popular feature.

Touring the venue, you see the same
tanks from different perspectives,
making the place seem even bigger than
it is. There are also glass-bottom boats
from which you can feed the fishes. This
costs extra.

All the fish on display are certainly
real; not so with the props they swim
around. The builders used fiberglass
coral, stones, seaweed and plants inside
the tanks in order to preserve the
environment, they say.

Going to the sea is how we visit the
world of the fishes, says Thon, but
going to an aquarium is how we bring the
fish into our world. Probably a million
Thais, he says, go diving and see the
real thing underwater.

“The aquarium is nothing compared to the
real world of water, but it will be a
good chance for the other 60 million
Thais to see [sea creatures].?

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